Originally posted by 2bighorn
If 14 years old girl gets pregnant, than parents have obviously failed...
I'm not sure I follow the logic.
Parents have the choice of trying to be with their kids 24hr a day or giving them some space. ie friends house , movies etc etc. Now if you trust your kids(and we all hope we can) you may let them go to the movies with their friends. Either you take them or the friends parents take them and you do what? Do you let them take some personal responsibility and let them stay by themselfs till the movie is over or do you stay with them the whole time?
Say you let them stay and while you are gone they sneak out to do the bouncy bouncy with a boy. Is this really the parents fault?
No matter what you teach your kids if they want to sneak away and play with each others mommy daddy toys then they are going to find a way.
It doesn't mean the parents were bad or that they did something wrong.
On the issue of parents being notified I think since the parents are legally responsible for the kids till they are 18 they have the right to know everything about the kid.